Woodard: RB Logan could be out for season

Running back Octavious Logan suffered a dislocated elbow Saturday and could miss the rest of the season, coach Ray Woodard said Monday night during his radio show.

The loss of Logan would leave Lamar without two of its three leading rushers as it prepares to play Saturday at Texas State. Losing Logan would also be another setback for a much-improved rushing offense.

The Cardinals (3-2, 1-1 Southland) played the last two games without DePauldrick Garrett, who leads the team with five rushing touchdowns.

Logan (174 rush yards, four touchdowns) will not be eligible for a medical hardship waiver from the NCAA, meaning the senior might have played his last game at Lamar.

Logan’s last carry Saturday came early in the third quarter, on a 44-yard run that set up a field goal in Lamar’s 37-17 loss against Northwestern State.

Mike Venson has started the two games since Garrett hurt his shoulder on a dive into the end zone. Venson has team highs in carries (70) and rushing yards (266) and two touchdowns. He also has 10 catches for 108 yards and one touchdown.

Woodard has not ruled Garrett, a junior, out for the season. But Garrett loses any chance at receiving a medical hardship waiver if he plays another game, according to the NCAA Division I manual. Garrett would keep two years of eligibility with a medical hardship waiver.

Players who played in more than four games or “any time after the beginning of the scheduled sixth game of an 11-game schedule… would not qualify… for a hardship waiver,” according to the Division I manual.

Woodard expects receiver J.J. Hayes to play this week after he suffered a concussion Saturday, Woodard said on his radio show. Hayes set a single-game Lamar record with 212 receiving yards on 10 catches Saturday and suffered the concussion as he tried to recover an onside kick after Lamar’s last touchdown.

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The loss of Logan would leave Lamar without two of its three leading rushers. Logan, a senior, has rushed 26 times for 174 yards and four touchdowns.

Lamar has played the last two games without DePauldrick Garrett, who rushed for 198 yards and five touchdowns before he separated his left shoulder on a dive into the end zone Sept. 17 against Incarnate Word.

Logan would not be eligible for a medical hardship waiver because he has played one game too many for the NCAA to consider such a waiver. The limit in an 11-game season is four.